The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier
Match22 Oct 2029
Lokomotiva Zagreb are in real trouble now
Position 8, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match20 Oct 2029
6 matches without a win for Lokomotiva Zagreb
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Lokomotiva Zagreb are no longer polite ones.
Market22 Oct 2029
Only the photograph left for Oliver Heiðarsson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oliver Heiðarsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiva Zagreb the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Words exchanged at Lokomotiva Zagreb
Mirko Sušak and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 Oct 2029
A row about effort at Lokomotiva Zagreb
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cheikh Mbacke Diop was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match20 Oct 2029
Oliver Heiðarsson’s goal not enough for Lokomotiva Zagreb
Oliver Heiðarsson scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to HNK Rijeka, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Stefan Markovski stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stefan Markovski and Lokomotiva Zagreb agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout22 Oct 2029
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Damir Bjelica left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings22 Oct 2029
Mirko Sušak was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- The dugout No place for Mario Šitum on the big day
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Dominik Mulac
- The dugout Josip Posavec gets picked when it counts